How can we build a digital ecosystem for the arts in the nordic region?

The Nordic countries have a strong infrastructure of public and semi public cultural institutions. The digital landscapes expands quickly creating new ways of distribution and audience involvement. How can we use the resources of the current digital landscape and improve the infrastructure?

DURING 2012 AND 2013 WE ARE CARRYING OUT THREE CONFERENCES ON THE THEMATIC OF DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS. YOU ARE INVITED TO TAKE PART IN THE THIRD OF THREE TRULY DIGITAL SEMINARS IN HELSINKI 20th TO 21st OF SEPTEMBER 2013.

The theme of the Helsinki session will be "OPEN DATA IS NOTHING WITHOUT A NARRATIVE" TO READ THE SUMMARY (IN SWEDISH) OF THE FIRST CONFERENCE CLICK HERE

SUMMARY FROM TRULY DIGITAL SWEDEN SEMINAR:

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS SWEDEN:

Pelle Snickars

Author, National Library, Stockholm University

Head of Research at the National Library of Sweden, also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University. He has published numerous books on various aspect of media history as well as new media. This year, he published anthologies, Moving Data, The iPhone and the Future of Media and Myten om Internet.

Karin Lekberg

Subtopia

CEO for the creative cluster Subtopia in Alby, Botkyrka. Previously Managing Director
at Upplev Botkyrka AB and Head of cultural development at Botkyrka kommun.

Geer Oskam

Senior Marketing Specialist at Europeana

Europe's portal for digitized cultural heritage, giving access to over 20 million digital
objects from Europe's museums, libraries and archives. At Europeana he is responsible for
marketing strategy, network contact and user engagement concepts. Geer was previously also
project manager of the Amsterdam Museums Night (n8).

Kristina Alexanderson

@Kalexanderson
Educational ombudsman Creative commons Sweden

Head of “Internet at school” at .SE - The Internet Infrastructure Foundation and the school contest
Webbstjärnan. Educational ombudsman at Creative Commons Sweden. Author of the Internet guide Källkritik
på Internet published 2012 and runs the Kristina Alexanderson blog.

Mats Lindberg

CEO, BUS - Visual Arts Copyright Society in Sweden

Mats Lindberg is the CEO of Visual Arts Copyright Society in Sweden since 1989. He has several
international assignments including IFRRO and European Visual Artists. He participated as an expert
in the latest copyright investigation and was previously the Association Secretary for The Artists Organisation, KRO.

Rolf Källman

@rolfkallman
DIGISAM, Swedish national coordination of digitisation

The National Archives. Responsible for the Swedish national coordination of digitisation,
digital preservation and digital access to cultural heritage

Beata Wickbom

@beatawkeynote listener
Expert in social media and digital communication

Beata Wickbom has worked with business development and communication on the web since
1995. She is a frequent lecturer and you can also often see her on television as expert
on Internet and social media. She was a prominent figure in the Swedish internet industry
and the founder of the industry conference SIME. Also, former marketing manager at Spray.

Max Valentin

Moderator

Max Valentin is a cultural producer and innovator in the field of participatory culture working with
technology, human interaction and learning. Max among other things run www.crowdculture.se a hybrid
economical on-line platform mixing crowdfunding investments with public funds. Parallel with the platform
development he does cultural policy studies and produces multiple platform games for learning.

Petter Westlund

Creative Director at B-Reel,

a hybrid production company, specialized in the field of advanced digital production for web,
mobile, physical installations and other media, with customers like Arcade Fire and Google.

DAVID MOTHANDER

GOOGLE SWEDEN

Nordic Policy Counsel at Google, responsible for Google's social issues in the Nordic countries.
Also a lawer and a background at The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS) and the telecom company 3.

KARIN NILSSON

HEAD OF THE DIGITAL MUSEUM AT THE ROYAL ARMOURY SKOKLOSTER WITH THE HALLWYL MUSEUM FOUNDATION

She has worked with the digitization of museum collections for many years, including K-Samsök for the National Heritage Board.

PAUL HENNINGSSON

CONSULTANT AT MUSEDIA IN THE AREAS OF DIGITAL MEDIA INTERPRETATION, VISITOR/USER EVALUATION AND EXHIBITION DEVELOPMENT.

He was previously a part of a museum R&D group at the Interactive Institute in Stockholm, co-founding the Nordic NODEM conference series. Since 2006 he runs the blog MuseiTeknik.

MAGNUS KOLSJÖ

MANAGER PWC

Manager at PwC specializing in e-government and community development. Earlier political Adviser at Swedish Ministry of Finance and chief economist for the Christian Democrats in the Swedish parliament.

ULRIKA WESTIN

COORDINATOR OF GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES, LANDSTINGET I SÖRMLAND

Coordinator of global perspectives and responsible for creative business at Landstinget i Sörmland. Worked at the EU Commission as an administrator for issues regarding children and youth.

REBECCA FORSBERG

KISTA TEATER

Is a graduated director of the Theater Academy in Malmö and holds a master degree in film, TV and radio for children and young people at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic arts. Rebecca is known as the founder and artistic director of Kista Theater and for RATS= Research in Artistic TechnologieS at Stockholms University, Department of Computer and systems science, DSV. Rebecca will show pieces of her work with digitial theater.

Key note listeners presents their view of the talks. Audience can send
reflections on hyper pad or twitter.

What next?

Reflections, burning questions and contributions to the comming seminar

Dinner and drinks 18.00 -

Mingel and drinks

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1 MARCH 2013, KL 09.30-17.30
LOUISIANA, HUMLEBÆK, COPENHAGEN

IN SEARCH OF A FUTURE VALUE CHAIN, NEW BUSINESS MODELS AND DIGITAL POLICY:

THE DIGITALIZATION, ALSO REFFERED TO AS THE
”DIGITAL SHIFT” HAS AFFECTED THE CULTURAL SECTOR.
THE DIGITAL LANDSCAPES EXPANDS QUICKLY CREATING NEW WAYS OF DISTRIBUTION AND AUDIENCE INVOLVEMENT. HOW CAN WE USE THE RESOURCES OF THE CURRENT DIGITAL LANDSCAPE AND IMPROVE THE NORDIC INFRASTRUCTURE?
THE ROLES AND CONDITIONS ARE CHANGING. YOU ARE INVITED TO TAKE PART IN THE SECOND OF THREE TRULY DIGITAL SEMINARS IN COPENHAGEN 1ST OF MARCH 2013.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS DENMARK:

Pier Luigi SaccoIULM University, Milan

PROFESSOR OF CULTURAL ECONOMICS AND DEPUTY RECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AT IULM UNIVERSITY OF MILAN.
HE IS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN EXPERT NETWORK ON CULTURE (EENC) AND DIRECTOR OF THE BID OF SIENA AS THE EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2019.

Ann Branch European Commission

Head of Unit in DG Education and Culture in the European Commission since 2008 and responsible for the European Union's Culture programme, work on the future Creative Europe programme, audience development, and other cultural actions including the European Capitals of Culture, the new European Heritage Label and the European Union prizes for contemporary architecture, cultural heritage, music and literature.

Linus Olsson Flattr

Flattr is a Swedish based microdonation provider founded by Linus Olsson and Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay. Flattr is a new model for funding digital content and they want to encourage people to share money as well as content.

Maria Tsakiris
Nordic Culture Fund

Senior advisor at the Nordic Culture Fund. Next year the Culture Fund will invest in a programme for digital art and culture. Maria Tsakiris is responsible for the programme, that hopes to be a boost for the actors working with digital culture and increase the knowledge and practice in the field.

SUNNY SANDSTRÖMREGIONAL COUNCIL OF SOUTHERN SMÅLAND

FSANDSTRÖM IS THE HEAD OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS AT THE COUNTY COUNCIL OF KRONOBERG AND FUNCTIONAL LEADER FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AT THE REGIONAL COUNCIL OF SOUTHERN SMÅLAND.

ERIK JOSEFSSON
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, EFA GROUP

JOSEFSSON IS AN ADVISER ON INTERNET POLICIES WITH THE GREENS/EFA GROUP IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT. HE’S ALSO THE FOUNDER OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT FREE SOFTWARE USER GROUP (EPFSUG) AND THE FOUNDATION FOR A FREE INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE (FFII).

KARSTEN WENZLAFF
IKSOM

WENZLAFF IS THE FOUNDER AND CEO OF IKOSOM, INSTITUT FÜR KOMMUNIKATION IN SOZIALEN MEDIEN, THE FIRST OPEN SCIENCE INSTITUTE IN GERMANY AND A LEADING RESEARCH COMPANY ON THE DIGITAL FIELD.

LENA HAMMARGREN NOVELLIX

LENA HAMMARGREN IS THE FOUNDER OF NOVELLIX, A BOLD PUBLISHING HOUSE THAT HAS PUSHED THE BOUNDARIES OF THE BUSINESS AND POSITIONED ITSELF ON THE EMERGING E-BOOK MARKET.

David Mothander
Google

Nordic Policy Counsel at Google, responsible for Google's social issues in the Nordic countries. Also a background as a lawer and manager at The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS) and the telecom company 3.

MAX VALENTINMODERATOR: FABEL

CULTURAL PRODUCER AND INNOVATOR IN THE FIELD OF PARTICIPATORY CULTURE WORKING WITH TECHNOLOGY, HUMAN INTERACTION AND LEARNING. FOUNDER AND CEO OF FABEL.

MARTIN VON HALLER GRØNBÆKSAXO, CREATIVE COMMONS DENMARK

MARTIN IS A LAWYER WITH OVER 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE AND SPECIALIZATION WITHIN INTERNET AND OPEN SOURCE ISSUES. HE IS THE CO-FOUNDER OF MANY DIGITAL NETWORKS AND ORGANISATIONS LIKE DANISH OPEN SOURCE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION (OSL), DANISH EBUSINESS ASSOCIATION (FDIH), INTERNET SOCIETY DENMARK, CREATIVE COMMONS DENMARK AND BVHD LAW FIRM. HE IS CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF SAXO.COM, DENMARK'S LARGEST ONLINE BOOKSHOP.

WORLD CAFÉ

WHAT’S NEXT?

OPEN DATA IS NOTHING WITHOUT A NARRATIVE:

This, the last of the three conferences in the series of Truly Digital – A Nordic Ecosystem for the Arts consists of two days:

Day 1 will look into the fuzzy boarders between public/private, individual/community, online democracy and engagement. The working title for day 1 is "Open data is nothing without a narrative". We ask our selves who is the hero, who is the villain on the dramatic curve that takes place on multiple platforms.

Day 2 is a co-arrangement together with The Nordic Culture Fund and is dedicated to the Fund´s upcoming DKK 3 million grant for “DIGITAL 2015-2016” to boost Nordic digital arts and culture. The focus is on Digital Arts production and dissemination, ideas, consultation and match-making.

Timo Vuorensola Iron Sky

Iron Sky is a crowdsourced film production that reached the cinemas all over Europe during 2012.

Therese Jonasson Nordic Creative Commons Film Festival

The Nordic Creative Commons Film Festival is a distributed festival where participants can create there own screenings at home or at a local cultural venue.

Pernilla Rendahl
Gothenburg University

Pernilla Rendahl is senior lecturer at the School of Business, Law and Economics at Gothenburg university. She has specialized in value added taxation and her main research project is Cross-Border VAT on Media Services in the EU Pernilla has also been involved in a multi-disciplinary research project in co-operation with Swedish TV-producers focusing on the regulatory framework for Swedish TV-producers in a transforming media landscape. Pernilla will help us imagine what a future taxations system could be, when capital accumulation does not look as before.

Per Strömbäck Netopia and Swedish Games Industry

Per Strömbäck takes interest in the field of digital content, both in his previous career as game developer and -publisher, and more recently as the editor of Netopia – a web magazine and forum on the digital society – and as editor of two anthologies; “Gratis?” (Volante 2009) and “The Myth of the Internet” (with Pelle Snickars, Volante 2012). Per’s upcoming book “The Dream of Alexandria” (Timbro 2013) takes a closer look on the mixed blessing of unlimited distribution.

Max Valentin Fabel

Your moderator

Kristian KeinänenLADEC

Kristian works as co-design program manager at Lahti Region Development LADEC Ltd. and as expert working with the Nordic Clulture Fund.

Maria Tsakiris Nordic Cultural Fund

Senior advisor at the Nordic Culture Fund. Next year the Culture Fund will invest in a programme for digital art and culture. Maria Tsakiris is responsible for the programme, that hopes to be a boost for the actors working with digital culture and increase the knowledge and practice in the field.

16:40 - 17:00 CLOSING REMARCS

DAY 2

12:00 Inspiration talk
by Timo Vuorensola Director of Iron Sky

12:40 Information about the DIGITAL NORDIC 2015–16
Maria Tsakiris, Senior Advisor with the Nordic Culture Fund, presents the financing opportunities in the framework of DIGITAL 2015-2016 and the criteria for applying in February, 2014.

Maria Tsakiris will also give a brief presentation of the online match making forum DIGITAL NORDIC 2015-2016.
Its purpose is to open up the world and present nine provisional ideas to other artists, cultural entrepreneurs and stakeholders who would like to forge new Nordic – and digital – partnerships. The forum enables you to exchange ideas, develop new initiatives and possibly get together as project partners. Its potential is huge.

The DIGITAL NORDIC 2015-2016 is designed to facilitate the sharing, commenting on and refining of project proposals in the months leading up to applications for the Fund’s extraordinary DKK 3 million grant. Be sure to visit the forum to see if there are any projects that you could help out with – or join.

13:00 Pitches
Do you want to pitch your great idea for Nordic digital arts and culture and receive feed back from experts? Then tick the box at the bottom of this page. Pitches are limited to a maximum of five min.

14:30 Mingle and open lab
Meet with other explorers of the digital possibilities and share your experiences. At the conference there will be both academics, artists, individuals from institutions and digital craftsmen.

If you want to showcase your work, involve your audience or present work for feed back fill in the message field at the bottom of this page.
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Participation

HOW DO I PARTICIPATE?

Please register by filling in the form below. The conference fee for the 20th is €90 (800 SEK) for professionals and €30 (300 SEK) for students all prices displayed excluding VAT. If you are 3 or more from the same organization the fee is reduced to €65 (600 SEK) per person.
An invoice will be sent to the given address after the conference. A cancelation fee of €30 (300 SEK) will be sent to you if you cancel your participation less than one week before the event.